Venture Intellectual Property

Dedicated to investor-side intellectual property due diligence, Morrison & Foerster’s Venture Intellectual Property Group provides strategic legal advice to investors on key business considerations in VC investments, corporate venture investments, collaborations, joint venture evaluations, and licensing evaluations. We also help value investments while providing strategic advice on how best to position companies for optimal partnering and transactional strategies.

We apply our broad IP experience to evaluating both healthy and troubled portfolios for VCs before investment and re-tooling and managing portfolios after investment, ultimately strengthening our clients’ positions. We help investors reduce or eliminate IP risk, including risks related to patent ownership, inventorship, patent coverage, freedom-to-operate, and potential litigation.

Importantly, our team addresses complex issues and identifies potential valuation pitfalls, drawing on a deep bench of legal, scientific, and practical business experience. We synthesize advice from across functional legal areas, creating efficiencies for clients.

Our team also possesses a critical understanding across industries. Our attorneys and agents are specialists in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, materials chemistry, medical devices, agtech, electronics, software, telecommunications, and energy and greentech.

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